Sunday, August 14, 2016
We acquired Marina and a few of her white sisters recently because we wanted more white alpacas. As explained elsewhere on our website, white is actually the most valuable color of the 22 natural alpaca colors - because it can be dyed.

As an extra bonus, Marina happens to be very friendly and touchable. giving our Kimaree a bit of competition.

Annette's Beret

Here is the completed beret from your gorgeous alpaca/bamboo yarn. It has been finished for days, but I've been waiting for my daughter Anna to have time to put it on to model it for you. It is SO light and warm and I have ALMOST enough yarn left for another one. I can certainly make a baby hat out of what is left. I don't wait to waste an inch of it.

I made a couple of changes to the pattern you gave me. I added two stitches to the garter stitch border fo...

Sunday, June 1, 2014
Ok - every visitor loves the alpacas, especially Kimaree, but then - if they are lucky - there's Mr. Toad. Thanks to the Creepy Crawlies column in the Upper Rogue Independent, we learned last July that Mr. Toad and his girl friends (they are smaller so we are making an assumption here..) belong to the " Western toad, an amphibian who much prefers land to water. No matter their color (gray to reddish brown to yellow or green) they have a white stripe down their back."